Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is liked getting kicked
out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Aeschylus

[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are
two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity:
(1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and
confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a

Aeschylus

Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is,
having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well
burst out in laughter.

Aeschylus

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is
nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Catflap
Filthy Rich and

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary.

Edward A. Murphy

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the
Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an
open market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri

Fuldheim
Dorothy

What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to
win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent?
In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded
that it takes a coinci

Galsworthy
John

I have just enough white in me to make my honesty questionable.

Hepbur Dorothy Parker

Satire is tragedy plus time.

McCarthy
Charlie

... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech
or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What
did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was
manager? One gets sometimes s

McCarthy
Charlie

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious
to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,
which morally we can do. T

McCarthy
Eugene

NEW YORK

McCarthy
Eugene

Like ya know? Rock 'N Roll is an esoteric language that unlocks the
creativity chambers in people's brains, and like totally activates their
essential hipness, which of course is like totally necessary for saving
the earth, like because the first th

Neophyte

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Parker
Dorothy

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Parker
Dorothy

A kind of Batman of contemporary letters.

Parker
Dorothy

Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Parker
Dorothy

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Parker
Dorothy

Love the sea? I dote upon it

Parker
Dorothy

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Parker
Dorthy

Necessity has no law.

Physicist John von Neumann

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Schlafly
Phyllis

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is
irksome and three minutes is a long time.